SC Cleared Jobs in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 108 305
Rank change year-on-year -12 +197 -147
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 613 1,134 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.61% 3.17% 1.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.14% 12.18% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 415 773 490
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,631 £41,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,250 £96,325
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,709 9,312 13,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.58% 26.00% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 5,792 6,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,725 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +12 128 £63,750 -7.61% 27
South London +36 59 £82,500 +13.79% 13
West London -30 9 £37,500 -53.13% 14
East London +1 1 £28,000 -51.30% 3
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (4.40%) ArcGIS
1 27 (4.40%) GeoServer
2 23 (3.75%) OpenStack
2 23 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.79%) JBoss
3 11 (1.79%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (1.31%) Apache
4 8 (1.31%) Confluence
4 8 (1.31%) Drupal
5 4 (0.65%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.65%) WordPress
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.65%) Sketch
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Blender
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.47%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.49%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.49%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.49%) SAP GTS
4 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.49%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.49%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.16%) HFM
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 173 (28.22%) AWS
2 169 (27.57%) Azure
3 49 (7.99%) Power Platform
4 46 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (6.20%) Serverless
7 37 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (4.40%) SaaS
10 22 (3.59%) GCP
10 22 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (2.94%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.94%) PowerApps
12 17 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.28%) GitHub
14 13 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.79%) PaaS
17 10 (1.63%) Entra ID
18 9 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.77%) Firewall
2 12 (1.96%) SSL
3 10 (1.63%) DNS
4 9 (1.47%) VPN
5 8 (1.31%) Structured Cabling
6 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.98%) BGP
8 5 (0.82%) Network Security
9 4 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.49%) IPv4
10 3 (0.49%) IPv6
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.33%) DHCP
11 2 (0.33%) HTTP
11 2 (0.33%) IPsec
11 2 (0.33%) OSPF
11 2 (0.33%) VRRP
11 2 (0.33%) VSAN
11 2 (0.33%) Wireless
12 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.32%) Relational Database
3 29 (4.73%) Power BI
4 28 (4.57%) GIS
5 27 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.40%) QGIS
6 20 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.12%) Metadata
7 13 (2.12%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.79%) Big Data
9 10 (1.63%) MySQL
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.98%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.82%) Looker
13 5 (0.82%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 48 (7.83%) Git
3 25 (4.08%) JIRA
4 17 (2.77%) JUnit
5 16 (2.61%) GitLab
6 12 (1.96%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.96%) Selenium
7 10 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.31%) TestNG
9 7 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.82%) Maven
10 5 (0.82%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.49%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.49%) JMeter
12 3 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (0.49%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 181 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 178 (29.04%) Public Sector
3 76 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.20%) Finance
6 28 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (4.40%) Law
8 24 (3.92%) Police
9 17 (2.77%) Marketing
10 12 (1.96%) Legal
11 9 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.31%) Retail
13 6 (0.98%) Electronics
13 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.65%) Military
15 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 127 (20.72%) Architect
2 120 (19.58%) Senior
3 89 (14.52%) Developer
4 59 (9.62%) Consultant
5 53 (8.65%) Analyst
6 50 (8.16%) Technical Architect
7 47 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (7.18%) Lead
8 44 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 43 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (6.04%) Java Developer
11 24 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (3.75%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
13 22 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.43%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 20 (3.26%) Security Consultant
16 19 (3.10%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 19 (3.10%) Senior Architect
17 18 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.32%) Web Services
2 48 (7.83%) Spring
3 46 (7.50%) REST
4 42 (6.85%) .NET
5 41 (6.69%) Spring Boot
6 40 (6.53%) React
7 36 (5.87%) XML
8 33 (5.38%) CSS
9 32 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
9 32 (5.22%) Node.js
10 31 (5.06%) JSON
10 31 (5.06%) SOAP
11 30 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 27 (4.40%) .NET Core
12 27 (4.40%) Leaflet
12 27 (4.40%) OpenLayers
12 27 (4.40%) PostGIS
13 26 (4.24%) HTML
14 23 (3.75%) Apache Camel
14 23 (3.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.79%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.47%) CMDB
7 9 (1.47%) Cyberattack
7 9 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.14%) PKI
10 6 (0.98%) CCTV
10 6 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.65%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.65%) Linux
2 49 (7.99%) Windows
3 22 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.65%) Unix
7 2 (0.33%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (43.72%) Agile
2 175 (28.55%) DevOps
3 99 (16.15%) CI/CD
4 89 (14.52%) Actionable Insight
4 89 (14.52%) Software Engineering
5 88 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
6 87 (14.19%) Scrum
7 76 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (10.28%) Project Delivery
9 62 (10.11%) Microservices
9 62 (10.11%) Project Management
10 57 (9.30%) Mentoring
11 45 (7.34%) Kanban
12 41 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (6.69%) Coaching
12 41 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (6.69%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (6.36%) Containerisation
13 39 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (6.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (16.15%) JavaScript
2 98 (15.99%) Python
3 87 (14.19%) Java
4 60 (9.79%) SQL
5 49 (7.99%) C#
6 24 (3.92%) Bash
7 19 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.12%) Perl
9 10 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.47%) C++
11 8 (1.31%) PHP
12 6 (0.98%) Bicep
12 6 (0.98%) Groovy
13 5 (0.82%) C
13 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.65%) Scala
14 4 (0.65%) VBA
15 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.49%) X++
Qualifications
1 613 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 95 (15.50%) DV Cleared
3 89 (14.52%) Degree
4 31 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (4.24%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.75%) CISSP
9 20 (3.26%) CISM
10 17 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.47%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.47%) Master's Degree
13 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.14%) HNC
13 7 (1.14%) HND
14 6 (0.98%) CRISC
14 6 (0.98%) Postgraduate
15 5 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.92%) QA
3 16 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.45%) GDPR
5 13 (2.12%) NIST
5 13 (2.12%) PMO
6 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.14%) NCSC
8 5 (0.82%) WCAG
9 4 (0.65%) GRC
9 4 (0.65%) SLA
10 3 (0.49%) COBIT
10 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 91 (14.85%) Docker
2 16 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.12%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.31%) KVM
6 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 77 (12.56%) Terraform
3 53 (8.65%) Ansible
4 11 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.63%) Puppet
6 8 (1.31%) HP UCMDB
6 8 (1.31%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.14%) Grafana
7 7 (1.14%) Kibana
8 4 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.49%) Consul
9 3 (0.49%) OpenView
9 3 (0.49%) Packer
9 3 (0.49%) SCCM
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.16%) logstash
11 1 (0.16%) QRadar
11 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.53%) Oracle
3 34 (5.55%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.57%) ESRI
5 23 (3.75%) WSO2
6 22 (3.59%) HP
7 20 (3.26%) BMC
7 20 (3.26%) Remedy
8 17 (2.77%) Juniper
9 13 (2.12%) Google
10 12 (1.96%) VMware
11 10 (1.63%) Cisco
12 6 (0.98%) SAP
12 6 (0.98%) Splunk
13 5 (0.82%) Databricks
13 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.82%) Sparx
13 5 (0.82%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.65%) Cloudera